A flaw
I have discovered a flaw in Galerie. Or perhaps it is just in the way in which I am using it. When I used BreezeBrowser on my PC to generate HTML files, it would generate a name for the HTML files, thumbnails, and converted images that was based on the original image file name. For example
- Original image file from my camera: img_1001.jpg
- Thumbnail generated by breezebrowser: img_1001_thm.jpg
- Converted image generated by breezebrowser: img_1001_std.jpg
- HTML page for the converted image: img_1001.htm
This naming convention allowed me to regenerate the photo album, even changing the order of the photos or inserting new ones in the middle instead of at the end, but still maintain the integrity of the links that I had in my blog entries to individual photos.
Galerie does things differently. I didn't even notice until I was scrolling through my recent entries and noticed that Janel had posted a comment that said "Kitty!" in response to a photo that I had published of Bobbin eating a hotdog. Only it wasn't a photo of Bobbin eating a hotdog when I published it. It was a photo of Bobbin holding a kitty. But I had since updated my photo album and moved some pictures around and when I regenerated it in Galerie, Galerie renamed all of the files. So for example where my original album had the following:
L16.jpg = converted image generated by galerie of Bobbin holding a Kitty
When I added new photos into my album and reorganized it, Galerie regenerated all the file names, so
L16.jpg = converted image generated by galerie of Bobbin eating a hotdog.
If I keep adding photos to the end of the album I don't have a problem. But if I do end up inserting some in the middle, this is an issue. Seems a silly way of doing things in my book.
I'll have to see if there is a way to override this in the application preferences or something.
In the meantime, I've updated the entry to which I was referring so it is now correctly showing a photo of Bobbin holding a kitty again.
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